Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In heraldry, charged with flowers, such as fleurs-de-lis, which are divided and separated by the whole width of the bearing so charged. Thus, in the illustration the tressure is counter-flory, having half of each fleur-de-lis within and half without.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Her.) Adorned with flowers (usually fleurs-de-lis) so divided that the tops appear on one side and the bottoms on the others; -- said of any ordinary.
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- adjective heraldry decorated with
fleurs-de-lis or other floralmotifs arranged in pairs opposite each other: especially on opposite sides of a border on a shield orbanner
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Examples
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Tressure, the fleurs de lys are so disposed that the heads and stalks of the flowers point alternately in contrary directions: this is blazoned as a “_Tressure flory counterflory_.”
The Handbook to English Heraldry Charles Boutell 1844
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Each component half of this “double Tressure flory counterflory,” accordingly, has its own independent series of demi-fleurs de lys, the stalks and heads of the flowers alternating, and the one alternate series pointing externally, while the other points internally.
The Handbook to English Heraldry Charles Boutell 1844
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-- _Quarterly_, 1 _and_ 4, _gules, three lions passant guardant in pale or_ (ENGLAND); 2, _or, a lion rampant within a double tressure flory and counterflory gules_ (SCOTLAND); 3, _azure, a harp or, stringed argent_ (IRELAND).
The Handbook to English Heraldry Charles Boutell 1844
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No. 138, the Royal Shield of SCOTLAND, now displayed in the second quarter of the Royal Arms of the UNITED KINGDOM, is thus blazoned -- _Or, a lion rampt. within a double Tressure flory counterflory, gu.
The Handbook to English Heraldry Charles Boutell 1844
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This is the heraldic description of the arms of Scotland: 'Or, a lion rampant gules, armed and langued azure, within a double tressure flory counterflory of fleur-de-lis of the second.'
Marmion Walter Scott 1801
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* Or, a lion rampant within a double tres - sure flory and counterflory.
Collins's Peerage of England; Genealogical, Biographical, and Historical 1812
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-- Single Tressure flory counterflory.] [Illustration: No. 138.
The Handbook to English Heraldry Charles Boutell 1844
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-- Double Tressure flory counterflory.] [Illustration: No. 136.
The Handbook to English Heraldry Charles Boutell 1844
hernesheir commented on the word counterflory
A heraldy term.
December 19, 2010